Tuesday, October 29, 2013

First Few days In The Field

Dear Mom, Dad, Preston, Ashtyn, and everyone else,

To answer some questions. Yes i can buy batteries here. I can buy
pretty much anything. With the ties, it doesnt matter. You can buy some
if you want if not just send me mine. Its hot down here. About 80 to 85
everyday. Im sorry you guys are all getting sick, que fome (thats lame).
But on the other hand im glad everything is going well. Now for my week.

My new comp is Elder Shildan from Boise, Idaho. He speaks alot of
english from me becasue he said i will learn spanish but he wants to
help me learn the doctrines of christ and how to help people. We live a
house with 5 other latino missionaries. The house is the oldest in the
mission so its kinda run down but it works. I only spend about 5 hours
awake i it, maybe.

The area is great and the people are really nice and helpful. I
spoke in sacrament meeting and gave the closing prayer. Afterward the
members came up to me and said that i speak better spanish then the last
new gringo Elder. I have met with some of the families and they are
awesome. I have also a few investigators and they are great too. The
houses are tiny and some are just concrete floors with makeshift roofs.
They basically live outside with wood slates over their heads. Not much
else happened in my sector or with my ward.

On saturday
we went to a sealing. My comp´s first baptism was geting married to his
trainer. Wierd huh. But it was good. It was cool to see how the gospel
can change lives. I got to witness my first sealing in spanish. The bad
part was i didnt understand it all because he used some fancy words. But
oh well. Then that afternoon we went to a baptism for two new converts
in our district. They are investigators of two other missionaries. It
was good to see how happy they were. SO my saturday was filled with covenant making instead of teaching. The teaching will come later this week.

The people here are so ready for the gospel. We had this one lady
come up to us, tell us here problems and said she wanted us to help her.
Perfect opportunity to share the gospel. Hopefully everything will work
out with her.

I almost forgot. I tried my first churrisco and completo. They were
good. A churrisco is like a roast beef sandwich, just way better. A
completo is a hotdogs with tomatoes, onions, guacamole, mustard,
ketchup, and mayonaise it was really good too. I dont know what else
happened this week.

I hope you all are doing good and i love hearing from you. I think about you and miss you. Love you All!

Elder Ashworth

P.S. Preston driving. That is a scary thought. HAHAHAHA. Just kidding preston.